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Woman is also the stronger sex. Though her muscular strength is only half that of a man, she is a much more efficient organism for survival. Her hormones protect her better against illness and shocks. Boys are more likely to inherit physical defects; a third more of them are blind; eight times as many are colorblind; hemophilia is exclusively a male disease. Although women have a 20% higher illness rate in almost every disease, men have a much higher death rate (an exception: 40% more women die during the course of dementia praecox...
Like his penguins, anti-Darwinist Gerald Heard believes that the meek do indeed inherit the earth, and that the strong end up as fossils. He also believes that men might live as harmoniously as his penguins if they would learn to contemplate like Quakers and to aspire to extrasensory experience like Brahmin Yogis. Since 1937, Expatriate Heard has been expounding these doctrines from a home in Laguna Beach. Calif...
...Bill" triumphed over ten fat volumes of charges of moral turpitude: his Senate colleagues voted (52-10-30) to ignore the whole thing. Last week, having maneuvered Senator Nye into a three-cornered primary fight, Slippery Bill stumped the state with his own hand-picked candidate. He hoped to inherit: 1) control of two seats in the U.S. Senate; 2) all of North Dakota's Federal patronage; 3) overlordship of Bismarck's 19-story State Capitol...
...even his best friends would argue that this background makes Johnson a qualified transportation expert. But he does inherit from the late Joseph B. Eastman a smoothly functioning ODT, and from his ICC experience a practical knowledge of the problems of wartime transportation...
...decline & fall of the Saltonstall political fortune was typical of the political decline & fall of the whole proud line of New England's first families. Leverett Saltonstall did not so much inherit a political tradition as resuscitate...